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Political Prisoner Releases Welcome but also Highlights Return to Than Shwe Approach
Burma Campaign UK today welcomed the release of around 13 political prisoners as part of an amnesty given by President Thein Sein to almost 7,000 prisoners. 11 of the political prisoners released were cases that Burma Campaign UK has been actively campaigning on […]
• • •Myanmar: Prisoners of Conscience Released in Amnesty but Scores Remain Behind Bars
The release of at least 11 prisoners of conscience in a mass prisoner amnesty in Myanmar today is a step in the right direction, but authorities must immediately clear the country’s jails of the scores of peaceful activists who still remain behind bars, Amnesty International said […]
• • •Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire Visits Burma’s Rakhine State
Mr Swire spent Sunday and Monday in Rakhine State, where he met residents of Muslim and Buddhist IDP camps, community leaders and the state government, to assess the current political and humanitarian situation. On Tuesday he met senior government ministers in Naypyidaw […]
• • •US: Don’t Let Trade Trump Human Rights
(Bangkok, July 28, 2015)—The U.S. State Department’s annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report fails to accurately assess Malaysia and Myanmar’s efforts to combat human trafficking, Fortify Rights said today. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry released the report in Washington, D.C. on Monday, upgrading Malaysia from Tier-3 to Tier-2 Watch-List status and keeping Myanmar at Tier-2 Watch-List status, despite evidence that each country failed to adequately combat human trafficking in 2014 […]
• • •SD ႏွင့္ UPWC တုိ႔၏ တစ္ႏုိင္ငံလုံးအပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရးဆုိင္ရာ သေဘာတူစာခ်ဳပ္(မူၾကမ္း) (၈)ႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ညွိႏႈိင္းေဆြးေႏြးပြဲအေပၚ သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္
၁။ ၂၀၁၅ ခုႏွစ္၊ ဇူလုိင္လ (၂၂) ရက္ေန႔မွ (၂၄) ရက္ေန႔အထိ ရန္ကုန္ၿမဳိ႕ရွိ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးျပန္လည္ ထူေထာင္ေရးလုပ္ငန္းဗဟုိဌာနတြင္ က်င္းပျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ေသာ တုိင္းရင္းသားလက္နက္ကုိင္ေတာ္လွန္ေရးအဖြဲ႔အစည္း မ်ား၏ တစ္ႏုိင္ငံလုံးအပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရးဆုိင္ရာ အဆင့္ျမင့္ညွိႏႈိင္းေရးကုိယ္စားလွယ္အဖြဲ႔ (SD) ႏွင့္ ျပည္ေထာင္စုၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေဖာ္ေဆာင္ေရးလုပ္ငန္းေကာ္မတီ (UPWC) တုိ႔၏ NCA စာခ်ဳပ္မူၾကမ္း (၈)ႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ ညွိႏႈိင္း ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲအေပၚ အျပဳသေဘာေဆာင္သည့္ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲတစ္ခုအျဖစ္ မွတ္ယူပါသည္ […]
• • •The Ethnic Armed Organizations’ Senior Delegation and the Union Peace Working Committee Complete Third Day of 8th Meeting for Conclusive Negotiations of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement
After the third day of negotiation, the EAOs’ Senior Delegation (SD) and the Union Peace Working Committee (UPWC) reached initial agreements on most of the provisions in the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) text. It was agreed that remaining provisions will be discussed in further negotiation […]
• • •U.S. Embassy Statement on Kachin Fighting
The U.S. Embassy is deeply concerned by reports of intensifying military action in Kachin State and northern Shan State. Continued fighting needlessly puts the lives of vulnerable communities at risk and undermines the trust that will be essential to achieving a nationwide ceasefire agreement […]
• • •Amid a Worsening Human Rights Situation, the Burma Government Must End the Persecution of Human Rights Defenders
[Chiang Mai – 24 July 2015] The Burma Government must immediately cease the targeting, oppressing, stifling, controlling and silencing of human rights defenders (HRDs) and strengthen judicial and legislative protection mechanisms to safeguard the work of HRDs so that they can carry out their valuable and legitimate human rights work, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners and Burma Partnership said in a joint report released today […]
• • •Villagers Remain Fearful after Burma Army Rape-Murder in Ho Pong, Despite Punishment of Alleged Culprit
On June 6, 2015, a 28-year-old Shan woman was found raped, murdered and robbed in Ho Pong Township, southern Shan State, with evidence pointing to Burma Army soldiers stationed at the nearby Light Infantry Battalion 249 outpost. After initial denial, local Burmese military officers arrested one of their soldiers for the crime, gave him a public beating, and announced he would be given the death sentence. The Eastern Commander himself, Major General Aye Win, came from Taunggyi to apologize to the victim’s husband, and donated money and food to him […]
• • •Jailed for Calling Themselves Rohingya
Burma Campaign UK today urged the High Representative of the European External Action Service, Federica Mogherini, to take action to free Rohingya community leaders, Ba Thar, Kyaw Khin, Kyaw Myint and Hla Myint, and to pressure the military-backed government in Burma to reform the Prisoners of Conscience Affairs Committee […]
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